Stuff: by and about Bonnie Dalzell

I have a long, low key, career as an artist and writer which has included
publication of my work in various science fiction venues, dog magazines, web sites,
co-author on a real
"scientific" article, a number of natural
history and paleontology publications, Smithsonian Magazine
and the cover of Science magazine. I have also done exhibit work for a number of
natural history museums and I taught medical and veterinary anatomy for almost
20 years *

Before I became active in competitive dog sports (an all consuming addiction
that derailed a number of other projects ***). I attended a lot of science
fiction conventions and had a art print and stationary company called "Sleepy
Lion Graphics". I had a partner who took care of packaging and selling while I
took care of creating the art work and managing production of the product. It
was a good partnership because dealing with the selling end of things was
generally lethal to my ability to create while Scott was not an artist but a
business person. Eventually Scott moved off to Ohio and I went back to graduate
school and Sleepy Lion Graphics went to sleep as it were.

Recently I have discovered some on line production and shipping companies
such as CafePress.com and Zazzle.com. These seem to offer me the opprotunity to
sell my artwork again without having to face the lethal problem of marketing
(packaging and shipping). So I am going to experiment with creation of items
through these online companies. I have a large inventory of graphic designs
left over from the Sleepy Lion days as well as a collection of photographic
images from our Borzoi hobby and my current work creating a website for Sans
Souci Iris Nursery in Monkton, Maryland. I also think I am going to start going
to science fiction conventions again.

* Yes, at a real accredited medical school (Howard University) and a real
accredited college of veterinary medicine (University of Pennsylvania) until
someone in the administration at the latter figured out that my life time
ambition was to stay in graduate school and terminated my long term project.
Basically I like to teach and I hate writing grant proposals. The grim truth is
that, I had finished my degree and landed a job as a PhD in Anatomy,
Paleontology or a related field, then I would have also graduated into the
position of having to write grants to keep my job, not teach or do exhibit design**.

** This would even be the case if I got a job with a Natural History
Museum, how do you think they are able to stay open?

*** However there is nothing that can make an evolutionary biologist
happier than giving them a gene pool to play with (or as my husband, Dr Saklad,
suggests, swim in. Darwin came back from his voyage on the Beagle and started
raising fancy pigeons. It took him years to get around to actually writing "The
Origin of the Species and the Descent of Man".